Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 393.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (37)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Hubert Dreyfus ON "Kierkegaard and the Information
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (94)
Subject: ALA Online Copyright Tutorial
[3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (10)
Subject: essay online
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:48:00 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Hubert Dreyfus ON "Kierkegaard and the Information
Fellow Scholars,
Actually..The event is two years old..but the message is new and timely..
AT UCB Colloquium on Art,Tech, and Culture: 1997-98 - Prof. Hubert Dreyfus
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium on Wednesday, October 15, UC
Berkeley --an iteresting observations by Prof. Dreyfus..Comments are
welcome on the following abstracts..
Hubert Dreyfus has written..
In The Present Age (1846) Soren Kierkegaard condemns The Press for
contributing to the nihilism of his age by cultivating risk-free anonymity
and idle curiosity and thereby leveling all meaningful differences. He
would surely have denounced the world wide web for the same reasons. I
will spell out Kierkegaard's objections by considering how the web
promotes the nihilism of Kierkegaard's two nihilistic spheres of existence
and repels the third non-nihilistic sphere.
In the aesthetic sphere, the aesthete lives in the categories of the
interesting and the boring and wants to see as many interesting sights
(sites) as possible. The web promotes surfing which is surely a matter of
being attracted by whatever is interesting and dropping whatever is
boring, a paradigmatic form of nihilism. In the ethical sphere, the
ethical person's whole life consists in making and keeping commitments.
Ethical people might use the Internet to make up and keep track of their
commitments but would be brought to the despair of meaninglessness by the
ease of making and unmaking commitments in any domain. Only in the
religious sphere is nihilism overcome by making a risky, unconditional
commitment. But the net, which promises a risk-free simulated world,
would tend to undermine rather than support such a commitment.
FULL Text of the paper is available at
<http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/kierkegaard.html>
Please visit UC Berkeley Art, Technology and Culture Colloquim is at
<http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/>
Kindest Regards
Arun Tripathi
Research Scholar
University of Dortmund
Germany
EdResource Moderator
Online Facilitator
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:48:39 +0000
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:49:07 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: essay online
At the request of Dr Gerd Wille (Bonn), I have published online his essay,
"The Proper Way of Teaching Computers to Humanities Students - Is There a
Problem?", at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/gw/willee.txt>. All
correspondence about this essay should go to Dr Wille, <willee@uni-bonn.de>.
Yours,
WM
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